Vibe Subscriber Wants His Money Back

Alabama resident Kenneth Rogers purchased a one year subscription three months before Vibe magazine folded and wants all subscribers to get their money back. He’s not playing. Rogers filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. Rogers sued for breach of contract and unjust enrichment for a lost subscription and is seeking class action status enabling others to join him in the suit.

The lawsuit names Vibe Media Group as a defendant along with other unnamed individuals.

As the magazine was quietly closing up the shop, the Vibe website continued to contain links to advertisements enticing customers to purchase subscriptions to the magazine…[Vibe should have] publicly disclosed to subscribers that it was teetering on the brink of insolvency…

Vibe, the creation of music mogul Quincy Jones, folded with approximately 800,000 subscribers. If Rogers’s suit obtains class action status, then Vibe Media Group would have to potentially pay millions of dollars – they don’t have.